ABSN

Hera Kissoyan’s grandmother had always told her that she had what it took to someday be a nurse. And she always told her grandmother that she was wrong.

Jessica Parris BSN ’13 decided to become a nurse after spending seven weeks in the Newborn Intensive Care Unit (NICU) with her daughter, born at 28 weeks.

California’s Board of Registered Nurses (BRN) approved Concordia University Irvine’s request to increase the number of students in its nursing program from 40 to 64, indicating the strength of the…